Trim Your Beard 007-Style With A Frickin' Laser Beam

Beards are cool. Women prefer them, there are so many different styles and there’s even a rock band in Australia called “The Beards” that have three albums where every song is about how awesome beards are. But, if you're going to rock a beard in a professional environment, you better make it well-groomed.

For that, Philips has developed a futuristic beard trimmer that projects a laser beam to give you perfectly chiseled lines.

According to Michael Plothe, the senior product manager at Philips, the Beard Trimmer 9000 has been in development since 2009 and was created with help from experts in fields like ergonomics, skin care and precision engineering.

To develop the laser, Plothe said to the Daily Mail, “We needed to design an incredibly precise optical prism to re-direct and carefully funnel the light. In addition, we applied high-precision production techniques to manufacture the molds for these prisms.”

Very cool! But like any new state-of-the-art product, it comes at a hefty price of $100 or ($59.99 at Amazon). Is it worth it?

Aside from the the laser, the trimmer can go an hour between charges, has a dual head and can be washed in water. It also comes with a two-year guarantee, which is nice with any new product.

According to Plothe’s research at Philips, one in five men change their facial style at least once a month, and an aid in getting the perfect shape could give men the get-up and go to try that new look.

Even with trimming something as simple as your sideburns, we know it’s usually best to keep them roughly in line with the middle of your ear, but why measure roughly when you could know for sure and line it up exactly with the other side to prevent the dreaded uneven look?

A laser-close shave would have been handy for Movember to catch that odd space between the mo and your nose or your mo and your cheek, but there’s always next year!